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title: Kids mock the loop, not the fan: "Lads, 'best' and 'greatest' are th… — The football argument that goes in circles · tree and pragmatics
description: Kids mock the loop, not the fan: "Lads, 'best' and 'greatest' are the same word. Who acts: Kids, Lads. A sentence of the lesson «The football argument that goes in circles» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The football argument that goes in circles, sentence 11

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Kids mock the loop, not the fan: "Lads, 'best' and 'greatest' are the same word.

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**Who acts:** Kids, Lads · **What happens:** mock, be · **To what, where:** loop, same word · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The football argument that goes in circles» of the world course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kids, Lads), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:170-the-football-argument-that-goes-in-circles.lesson:11
# text = Kids mock the loop, not the fan: "Lads, 'best' and 'greatest' are the same word.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 170-the-football-argument-that-goes-in-circles.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change
1	Kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	mock	mock	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	loop	loop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	fan	fan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Lads	lad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
14	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	parataxis	_	_
15	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
18	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	conj	_	_
19	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mock** | present | Kids | the loop and the fan |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Lads | the same word |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:world:170-the-football-argument-that-goes-in-circles.lesson:11`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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